I just got to look into this one again a little further, and it does seem that
reading a utf16 file like this doesn't work:
my $contents = slurp( $file, :enc("utf16") );
Though this, however, does work:
my $fh = $file.IO.open( :r, :enc("utf16") );
my $contents = $fh.slurp;
Als
I'm having trouble doing a build of raku from github. Could it
be the INSTALL.txt file is out-of-date?
I was trying to build a "bleeding edge" Raku using the
instructions here:
https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/master/INSTALL.txt
So I thought I'd just need to do this:
cd /home/doom/End
Regex engines by their nature care a lot about order, but I
occasionally want to relax that to match for multiple
multicharacter subpatterns where the order of them doesn't
matter.
Frequently the simplest thing to do is just to just do multiple
matches. Let's say you're looking for words that ha
(it gets the combinations, not just the
permutations).
On 5/16/20, William Michels wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 7:33 PM Joseph Brenner wrote:
>>
>> Regex engines by their nature care a lot about order, but I
>> occasionally want to relax that to match for multiple
>&
s them all work on top of each other.
I keep thinking there's an edge case in these before/after tricks that
might matter if we weren't matching the one-word-per-line format of
the unix dictionaries, but I need to think about that a little more...
Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Fr
e
by lines or words or something-- but what could that possibly
mean? In that case the "qu" is just part of the string and fair
game to match against, so...)
On 5/16/20, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 05:53:04PM -0700, Joseph Brenner wrote:
>> Peter Pentchev w
Given this string:
my $str = "Romp romp ROMP";
We can match just the first or last by using the usual pinning
features, '^' or '$':
say $str ~~ m:i:g/^romp/; ## (｢Romp｣)
say $str ~~ m:i:g/romp$/; ## (｢ROMP｣)
Moritz Lenz (Section 3.8 of 'Parsing', p32) makes t
>
> They match the same three characters, but for entirely different reasons.
>
> The ｢^｣ version is basically the same as:
>
> / ... /
>
> While the other one is something like:
>
> / ... /
>
> (The ｢try｣ is needed because ｢.substr( -1 )｣ is a Failure.
I opened a github issue:
https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/issues/3728
On 5/26/20, Joseph Brenner wrote:
> Hey Brad, thanks much for the explication:
>
>> ｢｣ should probably also prevent the position from being at the
>> end.
>
>> It does work if you write it differ
I was just trying to comment on an issue I opened the other day, and I
accidentally closed it. I don't see any way for me to re-open it, so
I would guess I don't have permissions to do so. Could someone
re-open this?
https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/issues/3728
Thanks much.
On 5/30/20, JJ Merelo wrote:
> Reopened
>
> El sáb., 30 may. 2020 a las 19:26, Joseph Brenner ()
> escribió:
>
>> I was just trying to comment on an issue I opened the other day, and I
>> accidentally closed it. I don't see any way for me to re-open
No particular "killer app" has emerged for Raku as
of yet, there's no task that's going to make you go
"Aha, this is a job for Raku!". But you know, it's
not as though the original perl was designed to be
the Web 1.0 server-side scripting language or the
saviour of the human genome project...
Tha
In part because of the recent discussion here, I decided to
play around with using Raku code embedded in a regexp.
I came up with a contrived example where I was going to
examine a product listing in a text block to see if the product
descriptions matched the product codes. The valid associations
ave me some
> ideas
>
> Try matching against / (^P\d+) \s+ %products{$0} /
>
> This one also works, in a roundabout way
> / (^P\d+) \s+ {"%products{$0}"} /
> -y
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 4:44 PM Joseph Brenner wrote:
>
>> In part because of the
By the way, I've been finding code assertions are a fun way of
spying on what's going on with your regexps:
$_ = "Alpha beta gamma";
my @matches = m:g/(a) /;
# 5
# 10
# 13
# 16
ets
>
> NO: bad line.
> ...
> Why is it reading with an empty-string $0 in %products{''}
>
> -y
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 5:47 PM Joseph Brenner wrote:
>
>> Well, with the first one it rejects all of my lines, and with the
>> second one it passes
istake when I wrote it up, but whatever.)
On 6/14/20, Joseph Brenner wrote:
> Well, with the first one it rejects all of my lines, and with the
> second one it passes all of them.
>
> Just to be be clear, my idea is the second line is wrong, and it
> should flag that one as a pr
On 6/14/20, Vadim Belman wrote:
> It doesn't have to be an assertion. Just a code block would do the same.
>
> Best regards,
> Vadim Belman
>
>> On Jun 14, 2020, at 8:55 PM, Joseph Brenner wrote:
>>
>> $_ = "Alpha beta gamma";
>> my @matches = m:g/(a) /;
>
>
the way you would
> expect
>
> Although I would do something like this instead:
>
> my ($code,$desc) = $line.split( /\s+/, 2 );
> if %products{$code} eq $desc {
>
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 6:44 PM Joseph Brenner wrote:
>
>> In part because of the recent di
22｣
>
> 0 => ｢2｣
>
> The Match docs can be clearer on when to use {} and when it isn't needed,
> opened an issue https://github.com/Raku/doc/issues/3478
>
> -y
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 3:09 PM Brad Gilbert wrote:
>
>> You don't want to use
; By "works", I mean that the third "Corn dogs" example matches, while
> the first two fail:
>
> checking line: P123 Viridian Green Label Saying Magenta
> NO: bad line.
> checking line: P666 Yoda puppets
> NO: bad line.
> checking line: P912 Corn dogs
> Matc
d updated to 2020.05.1 (I thought you were
> still on 2019.03.1).
>
> FYI, I had been trying to write a line of code that calls the ".words"
> method on both the input lines and your product list, but for some
> reason I haven't been able to get to work. Maybe it's
I was just playing around with junctions a bit today, and I
noticed that if you weren't religious about using parenthesis
with them you could get quietly tripped up:
say so any() eq any(); # True (as expected)
say so any() eq any(); # False (as expected)
say so any eq any ; #
n operators -- so "eq" binds more tightly
> than "any".
>
> Thus
>
>say so any eq any ;
>
> parses like
>
>say(so(any( eq any(;
>
> which is indeed False.
>
> I'm not exactly sure what sort of warning should go here, or
s nicely, though (the
syntax is less like English):
say so .any eq .any;
My solution would be just to always use parens on the junction functions:
say so any() eq any();
On 6/24/20, Timo Paulssen wrote:
> On 22/06/2020 20:12, Joseph Brenner wrote:
>> > Speculating wildl
I don't know if it's related, but I was just having some trouble with
installs of LibCurl on an old linux box, I was getting errors like:
# at t/01-load.t6 line 7
# Cannot locate native library 'libcurl.so': libcurl.so: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory
But I had libraries
I was thinking about the cross-product operator the other day,
and I was wondering if there might be a convenient way of
filtering the resulting cartesian product to do something like a
database inner join:
my @level = ( godzilla => 9 ,gremlin => 3, hanuman => 5 );
my @origin = (
As usual, on Sunday afternoon at 2pm Pacific Standard Time, we're
going to be doing our usual Raku study group... since we're zooming
'em these days there's no reason not to publicize them wider:
https://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Perl/events/272258217/
These tend to be intermediate level discu
The SF Perl group's online Raku Study group is coming up again
tomorrow, Sunday August 09th at 2pm, via zoom.
RSVP to:
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zoom link, 2pm:
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other subject, we're probably going to be
messing around with again with type contraints, where clauses,
subsets, and type coercion.
On 8/8/20, Joseph Brenner wrote:
> The SF Perl group's online Raku Study group is coming up again
> tomorrow, Sunday August 09th at 2pm, via zoom.
"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our
wits to grow sharper." [1] Time for another Raku study group:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86928085691?pwd=bWZ5TzNWbFlTaFpOWVloU3NXUEIrdz09
Password: 4RakuRoll
Note: we're experimenting with an earlier start time, 1pm California time,
Yeaning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo
of night, it's the Raku study group:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85864767082?pwd=TW94dG8zR2tHWEl3ZVdvdmVyYkJkUT09
Password: 4RakuRoll.
Note: we're using an earlier start time now, 1pm PST, to
make things a little easier for people i
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fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams of the Raku Study Group.
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Password: 4RakuRoll
Note: we're still using that earlier start time: 1pm in California.
This make
I'm trying to get the Raku study group working today, but I've
been having a bunch of zoom weirdness. It should be in progress
now:
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And another Raku study group is added to the cosmic
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I'm not sure myself, but my first guess would be probably not...I
*think* Raku is doing it's own Unicode thing, and isn't using any
system ICU libraries (but I'm willing to stand corrected on that).
As far as perl (the-language-formerly-known-as-perl5) is concerned:
That page http://site.icu-pro
ght there
might be some point in using them for something or other.
On 9/24/20, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
> https://www.codesections.com/blog/raku-unicode/
>
>> On 24 Sep 2020, at 20:00, Joseph Brenner wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure myself, but my first guess would be prob
tware,
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> Sybase, Symantec, Teradata (NCR), ToolAware, Trend Micro, Virage,
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"You engineers are all mystics." -- Bruce Sterling, "Green Days in
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William Michels wrote:
>I actually wondered where the different programming paradigms
>would be delineated
I think were the present topic has to do more with the
strong/weak/gradual typing debates-- here Raku is doing an
automatic type conversion that a "strong-typing" fanatic
would sneer at. Th
Bruce Gray wrote:
> NOTE: 30 minutes from now is the start of the Raku Study Group of the San
> Francisco Perl Mongers.
Thanks-- though now it's 3 minutes-- but that was the info for last week.
The current one is:
https://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Perl/events/273839687/
In general, you ca
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infuse a spark of
being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet."
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And one more time (with a corrected meetup link this time):
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could shower forth like mushroom spore between such
alternatives as being here, or there; alive, or
dead; and old, or young."
-- Elizabeth Jane Howard, The Long View (1956)
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I think this kind of thing does what you're after:
use Inline::Perl5;
my $p5 = Inline::Perl5.new;
my $p5pat = '\w+';
$p5.run( 'sub chk { $_[0] =~ m/' ~ $p5pat ~ '/ }' );
subset p5_words of Str where { $p5.call( "chk", $^a ) };
my p5_words $a = "alpha";
say $a; # alpha, perl5 word chars, so acce
"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators."
-- Edward Gibbon
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"But in analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes
are quite superficial."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1836
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We're taking a break from the "Raku Study Group"
this weekend, but Lambert Lum has volunteered to
use the timeslot to talk about Docker.
This is on Sunday November 29th, 1pm, via google
meet rather than zoom:
https://meet.google.com/mdh-ywsn-ghk
https://www.meetup.com/SVPerl/events/274755174
I was going through the operator list in the documentation the
other day, and I noticed this one:
postfix ,=
Creates an object that concatenates, in a class-dependent way,
the contents of the variable on the left hand side and the
expression on the right hand side:
my %a = :11a, :22
First off, much thanks to Ralph Mellor for his detailed explanations.
Ralph Mellor wrote:
> @r ,= 'd';
>
> The above expands to:
>
> @r = @r , 'd';
Okay, that makes sense. So the circular reference I thought I
was seeing is really there, and it's working as designed.
There isn't anything very
About the documentation in general...
> > that particular pair-input syntax is my least favorite.
> > Flipping around the order of key and value when the value is a numeric...?
> >
> > And it isn't needed to demo the operator, any pair input syntax works.
> > I might argue that examples should ...
Ralph Mellor wrote:
>> > @r = @r , 'd';
>>
>> Okay, that makes sense. So the circular reference I thought I
>> was seeing is really there, and it's working as designed.
>>
>> There isn't anything very useful in this behavior though, is there?
>
> Yes.
>
> Here are some relevant results from a se
Joseph Brenner wrote:
> Just to be clear, I wasn't saying I didn't think circular references
should be forbidden,
Sorry about the double-negative. It could use another "not" to triple it.
William Michels wrote:
>> > "Perhaps more importantly, what improvement do you propose?"
>
> Apologies for top-posting, but what immediately comes to my mind upon
> encountering the creation of a self-referential (circular/infinite)
> object is proverbially 'going-down-a-level' and trying again. S
William Michels wrote:
> Joe, what would you expect the code below to produce?
> %h<> ,= c => 3;
> @a[] ,= 'd';
Well *I* expect it to error out, but that's my p5 brain talking.
The Raku approach is if you ask for nothing it gives you
everything, so an empty index like that essentially doesn'
Gregory Corso's "The Poet's Choice": When
confronted by two alternatives, choose both.
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ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
> I am a little late to this conversation, but `,=`
> looks a lot like `push` to me.
Yes that was my first impression, if you read ahead a bit in the
discussion you'll see it explained.
In summary: the = shortcuts all work in a precisely parallel way, so
@r
Jim Carrol, "Day and Night":
"And even when the question finds the answer/
Then even then, there's something like a dancer"
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creating, and even when they are programming, are still beyond the
reach of science; nearly everything we do is still an art."
-- Donald Knuth, "Computer programming as an art", CACM, December 1974
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"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is
the time of monsters" Antonio Gramsci, according to Heather Cox Richardson.
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thing as knowledge, combined with a great difficulty in
accepting much that passes as knowledge."
-- Bertrand Russell, "The Philosophy of Logical Atomism" (1918)
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Although I patch it as I can."
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>From the introduction to "Naming, Necessity, and Natural
Kinds" (1977), edited by Stephen P. Schwartz:
"Putnam extends the theory to natural kind terms. His
view is that we 'baptise' what we take to be good
examples or paradigms of some substance such as water
and then use 'water' to refer to wh
I think ToddAndMargo was thinking of perl5 regexes, where [.] is
a good way of matching a literal dot-- though myself, I'm more
inclined to use \.
In Raku, the square brackets just do non-capturing grouping
much like (?: ... } in perl5. To do a character class, you need
angles around the squares.
> My mistake was think that if a value at the end
> did not exist, I was given back a null. Now I know
> to look for a false.
> > say "1.33" ~~ m/(\d+) ** 3..4 % "." /
> False
That pattern says there has to be three or four fields of
digits, so if you don't have that many, the entire match has t
Leo Tolstoy, "Anna Karenina":
"After wavering for some time between various kinds of
art-- religious, historical, genre or realistic-- he
began to paint. He understood all the different kinds
and was able to draw inspiration from all, but he could
not imagine that it is possible to be q
William Michels via perl6-users wrote:
> Hello, I'm wondering if there's a REPL-specific issue with the following
> docs.raku.org code? The code can be found at:
> https://docs.raku.org/language/regexes#Regex_interpolation
I'm seeing the same behavior. This code runs in a script, but if you
pas
Juanita Nelson, "A Matter of Freedom" from "Seeds of Liberation"
(1964) edited by Paul Goodman:
"How could I presume to have so much of the truth that I
would defy constituted authority? What made me so
certain of myself in this regard? I was not certain.
But it seemed to me that if I s
Ralph Mellor wrote:
> Raku's OOP was designed to support proto-type programming
> and method delegation straight out-of-the-box.
Can you give us a pointer to some code examples on how to use Raku for
prototype-style OOP? I can think of ways to do it, but I don't know
that I see any advantage
Darren Duncan wrote:
> I don't understand the terminology "keeper" in this context.
"Keeper" is just his own term for his private notes, like a "cheat
sheet" or a summary.
Set objects have Associative methods:
my $s = set 2, 4, 6;
say $s.keys; # (4 2 6)
But I don't see them in the list from .^methods:
say $s.^methods;
# (menu default pick minpairs Setty grabpairs SET-SELF raku
Method+{is-nodal}.new Real Baggy iterator keyof Method+{is-nodal}.new
Method+{
Gianni Ceccarelli wrote:
>If you grep the list itself, instead of its gist::
>
> $ raku -e 'Set.^methods.map(*.name).grep(/keys/)>>.say'
> keys
Yes, you're right. That's all there was to it.
Christopher Marlowe, "Doctor Faustus" (~1588):
"Learned Faustus, To know the secrets of astronomy
Graven in the book of Jove's high-firmanent,
Did mount himself to scale Olympus' top.
Being seated in a chariot burning bright
Drawn by the strength of yoked dragons necks
He views the clouds, the pla
Vadim Belman wrote:
> It's not about gist truncating long lists. After all, when it does so it
> ends the output with triple dot.
>
> Yet nobody spotted that not every methods in the list are represented by
> their names. Alongside with something like 'elems' there are many
> 'Method+{is-nodal}.n
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Arise and Show Your Power"
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Is there a convenient way to get a list of all classes built-in to Raku?
Daniel Sockwell wrote:
>> Is there a convenient way to get a list of all classes built-in to Raku?
> Short answer:
> raku -e '.say for (|CORE::, |UNIT::, |OUTERS::, |MY::).grep({ .key eq
> .value.^name }).grep({ .value.HOW.^name eq "Perl6::Metamodel::ClassHOW"
> }).map(*.key).unique'
> Somewhat
This is some very nice work, of course. I was wondering how difficult
it would be to support other output formats (texinfo, nroff...).
> Please let me know whether you find the search interface easier than the one
> on the official site.
I've got some problems with the existing search, myself,
If you go to docs.raku.org and type "^methods" into the search
window, you get a drop down looking something like this:
class
Method
Submethod
method
methods
Reference
^methods
methods
Submethods
Routine
method
Site Search
sear
>From Aristotle's "Categories", the first book of The Organon
(trans. Harold P. Cook):
"When genera are co-ordinate and different, differentiae will
differ in kind. Take the genera, animal and knowledge.
'Footed', 'two-footed', 'winged', 'aquatic' are among the
differentiae of animal.
William Michels via perl6-users wrote:
> Hi David, I see the archives are current:
>
> https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.users/
Yes, going to the nntp web site, I can see something I just posted today.
But David may actually be using an actual nntp feed via a newsreader--
nntp refers to
This, for example, doesn't show any new posts in the last 30 days:
https://groups.google.com/g/perl.perl6.users
On 3/4/21, Joseph Brenner wrote:
> William Michels via perl6-users wrote:
>> Hi David, I see the archives are current:
>>
>> https://www.nntp.perl.
Is there anything like an equivalent of "man perlguts" for Raku/rakudo?
There are things like this, but they seem to be very out-of-date:
https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/master/docs/architecture.html
> I think it is best if you open an issue for this, so that it will not fall
> through the cracks.
Okay, fair enough:
https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/issues/4245
On 3/7/21, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
>> On 7 Mar 2021, at 00:16, Joseph Brenner wrote:
>>
>> I
JJ Merelo wrote:
> This is a bug in Documentable. Generated an issue there
> https://github.com/Raku/Documentable/issues/149 Thanks for the report.
And thanks for opening the issue.
Does this behavior make sense to anyone? When you've got a regex
with captures in it, the captures don't work if the regex is
stashed in a variable and then interpolated into a regex.
Do capture groups need to be defined at the top level where the
regex is used?
{ # From a code example in the "
Donald Knuth, "Computer programming as an art", CACM, December 1974:
"In this connection it is most important for us all
to remember that there is no one 'best' style; everybody
has his own preferences, and it is a mistake to try to force
people into an unnatural mold. ... The important thing is
You'll need to expand on that a bit, I don't get the complaint.
Do pretentious quotations bug you?
On 3/12/21, Tiejun Li wrote:
> Joseph,
> You think you are something. You are not. You are nothing.
> TJ
>
> On Friday, March 12, 2021, 3:17:03 AM GMT+8, Joseph Bren
Richard Hainsworth wrote:
> I found out yesterday by the intervention of a regular participant in
> the community that a new documentation website is being worked on.
I should say, I was surprised to hear about that project also. I knew
about Richard Hainsworth's work, but not about what the ot
n as a lexical regex
>
> > my regex pattern { (\d+) \s+ (\w+) }
> > $input ~~ / /
> ｢9 million｣
> pattern => ｢9 million｣
> 0 => ｢9｣
> 1 => ｢million｣
>
> Or just use it as the whole regex
>
> > $input ~~ $pattern # vari
>
> On 11.03.21 17:43, William Michels wrote:
>> Hi Moritz your book is mentioned below. Care to chime in? Reply to
>> perl6-users .
>>
>> Thx, Bill.
>> W. Michels, Ph.D.
>>
>> -- Forwarded message -
>> From: Joseph Brenner
>
Oops:
> March 14th, 2021 1pm in California, 9pm in the UK
Now that's *8pm* in the UK. The European Contingent might drop by a
little late today.
sistent.
> So breaking consistency should be very carefully considered.
>
> In this case, there is very little benefit.
> Even worse, you then have to come up with some new syntax to prevent it
> from capturing when you don't want it to.
> That new syntax wouldn't be as gu
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